Seeing as England were ejected from the tournament after their worst performance since 1950 I'll be switching my support to the USA.

This. I can't imagine what it'd be like if the US won the World Cup, it'd be both hilarious and kind of interesting to see if it'd finally get "soccer" to become properly mainstream over there. I mean, the World Cup is kind of our Superbowl (when we do even slightly well), it's weird that such similar countries have such different tastes when it comes to sports... though I'm certain that I will never fully appreciate baseball, that looks like cricket without the tea and scones.

After soccer, baseball is my favorite sport. I think there's still some of us die-hards out there. Don't get me wrong, I get frustrated with some of the changes. I can't stand that pitchers don't bat and that so many players aren't in shape.

I've never seen such a meltdown in any sport in my whole life. I watched the whole thing, and the 4 goals in 6 mins was unfathomable. I'm trying to find something to compare it to for my friends here who don't watch soccer but I can't come up with anything.

Brazil let the pressure get to them, they got caught up in all the hype about being at home, the expectations, and the emotion and were almost in a trance-like state.